The bezel is due to the hinge. By doing so, they have made the phone much thinner than other foldable phones.Pixel Fold for $1800 (not including tax). That is outrageous and overpriced! Also, the bezels on Pixel Fold are unacceptably thick for 2023.
We’ll see when they new list the Google Pixel Fold, i doubt it will be a plan deal like this on release date.
There is no need to doubt. Whenever a new iPhone is released they offer the same deal at launch. They just want to lock you into a certain invoice level for 36 months.
Agreed—let’s hope it starts biting companies in the ass, just like with Apple’s recent Mickey Mouse MacBooks
Except that we’ve now officially heard that so-called ’inflation’ was actually ‘greed-flation’: large corps were profiteering using the excuse of the (actual) supply chain challenges in order to rake in more profit. I mean, sure, some people might believe inflation is a factor in the ever-rising prices, but the reality is Wall Street’s demand to see ever-increasing profits is what leads us into an even more unaffordable world (for many).
However, the folding phones when folded are significantly smaller than an iPhone stacked on an iPad Mini. The Fold will fit in my pants pocket, the iPad mini will not. The Fold probably isn't any thicker than the Mophie battery case I put on my 3GS which fit in my pockets without any issue; I accepted that thicker size for the benefits it provided me. Lots of small technology has compromises due to their sizes, like the iPad mini compared to a larger iPad, but users are willing to accept these compromises due to the benefits provided even if you don't understand those benefits.
We know the price of the phone, we don't know the price of the headset...or if it even exists.
Personally, I like the fact that Apple is not up to par on the type of AI that makes it ever harder to tell whether thoughts and images were conceived and created by an identifiable human rather than by an anonymous software algorithm. We do not need to grow the culture of fake & deception — more than enough of it is already being spread by social media …
Google today hosted its 15th annual I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California, highlighting advances in artificial intelligence, changes to Google Photos, updates to search, and more.
Pixel Fold
The Pixel Fold is Google's first foldable smartphone, and it's set to launch in late June. In terms of design, it is similar to the Galaxy Z Fold, as it opens from a smartphone form factor into a tablet form factor.
The Pixel Fold features a 7.6-inch display when unfolded, with a resolution of 2208 x 1840 and a 120Hz refresh rate. When folded, the Pixel Fold has a 5.8-inch display with a 2092 x 1080 resolution. It is powered by the latest Google Tensor chip, and is equipped with a 4,821mAh battery.
There are three cameras, including a 48-megapixel main camera, an ultrawide camera, and a telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom. Other features include a fingerprint scanner built into the power button, facial recognition, IPX8 water resistance, and a 180-degree hinge mechanism at the edges. Preorders for the Pixel Fold are available today, and it is priced at $1,800.
Pixel Tablet and Pixel 7a
Alongside the Pixel Fold, Google today also introduced a new 11-inch Pixel Tablet and the more affordable Pixel 7a smartphone. The Pixel Tablet includes a Charging Speaker Dock that turns it into a smart home control hub, and it is priced at $499.
The Pixel 7a is a low-cost smartphone at $499, and it offers an alternative to the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro.
Google Photos
A new "Magic Editor" in Google Photos adds AI editing features, with select Pixel phones to get early access later in 2023. Magic Editor can make complex edits automatically, tweaking specific parts of an image to remove unwanted objects, changing composition by repositioning the subject, and updating elements like the sky.
Magic Editor can also create new content when repositioning an image to change the way cropping and resizing works, and it is functionality that is likely to expand beyond Pixel phones in the future.
Google Maps
Maps is gaining an updated Immersive View feature that uses AI to fuse Street View and aerial images together to create a digital model of the world for route planning purposes. It will show bike lanes, sidewalks, intersections, and parking for an entire trip, along with information on weather changes throughout the day. The feature will roll out in the coming months in select cities like San Francisco, Tokyo, LA, London, and New York.
AI
Artificial intelligence is a major focus at this year's I/O event with Google announcing several new initiatives.... Click here to read rest of article
Article Link: Google I/O: $1,800 Google Pixel Fold, AI Updates and More
It looks good in renders and when photographed perfectly in studio lighting. But when they used the over the shoulder cam and it unfolded, I thought it was broken. The glares from that cheap, plastic, screen protector looking cover moved across the screen like a lava lamp in fast motion and it was embarrassing. That alone is a dealbreaker for all foldable devices, never mind the high price for Android OS on a tablet.
I'm afraid you'd die of laughter when you'll see iphone fold price , I'm betting on 2300€
They can't do it yet due to the poor modem efficiency sadly...
I don’t fully appreciate the bezel hate. Curious — what’s the ideal. Zero bezel? True edge to edge?Pixel Fold for $1800 (not including tax). That is outrageous and overpriced! Also, the bezels on Pixel Fold are unacceptably thick for 2023.
I was about to explain how this isn't true, but a commenter on The Verge (surreal_nyc) put it better than I could've:
They just released a Pixel 7a that's a quarter of that price ($500), does exactly what you want it to do, and doesn't twelve into the realm of excess. The only complaint I can see is the size still being too big, but apart from that, it's the exact phone you want.
You think it's a coincidence that Apple hasn't implemented a feature as easy as profiles into the iPad's OS by now? They ant you to buy several iPads for each family members who need one. And it works, too. Which is why it'll take a while from them to let go of that revenue stream and add a logical, useful feature that lets people buy only as much as they need. It's sad to see Google, who's failed on tablets more times than I can count implementing something this amazing before Apple.
Does it really matter what they call the intelligence features if they work? Their features do. It's up to the individual to determine how useful that added functionality is, but at least it's working as advertised.
Bruh, Apple killed the fantastic wallpaper type they already had (Dynamic/Live Wallpaper), much less this new fangled stuff. They're evolving, just backwards.
This is something that's going to be perpetually subjective, but I'll say that I agree. In 2021 (maybe 2020 too, but I didn't watch that entire event, just clips, so I can't say) I felt their presentations were more realistic in scale (smaller, less grandiose) and approachable. I remember the Pixel 6 unveiling event felt like I was in a small city shop instead of flying around a multi-billion dollar campus.
Ostensibly, but as someone who's considering the iPad mini very seriously (yet again) right now, is that actually the case? For me, I'd at least have to bump up the storage on that iPad mini from the get go, but practically, it doesn't stop even there. For it be the grab-n'-go type of device I want, I'd be picking the cellular variant and having to pay the monthly add-on to use my service on an iPad. I can't be tethering this thing to my phone manually every time. That already eclipses the price of the Pixel Fold, and if I were to account for data, it eventually would no matter what.
So, in the few instances I have to put my smartphone in my backpack for whatever reason, and I happen to be walking about without having remembered to take it out, I literally have to find somewhere that's not a dirty footpath/road to take my backpack off, put it down, unzip it, and take the phone out. The bag's too floppy and filled with things that genuinely can't fit into a pocket for me to hoist it up and unzip it and take something out at the same time. This isn't a practical solution for something I'd want to have on-hand.
This is actually really sad. One of the features I really feel drawn to in the Apple Watch is its audio level monitoring. It will be really disappointing if it turned out to be uselessly inaccurate.
Right on! Do please share what it’s like when you get it.
